To:M. N. POKROVSKY

Written:Written January 3, 1917Published:First published April 22, 1958, in the newspaperKomxomolshaya PravdaNo. 95.

      Sent from Zurich to Sceaux.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      page590a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

      (2005).You may freely copy, distribute,
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Ireceived your postcard and thank you very much for the trouble you
have taken to save my pamphlet. Really, you are mistaken in thinking that I
blame you in any way. Not at all! I am sure that without your intervention
it would have been much worse, as the
			      publisher[1]evidently gives an ear to “outside” advice from the philistine camp. It
can’t be helped. One good thing—you have succeeded nevertheless in saving
some part of it (and a fairly large part). All the best wishes for a happy
New Year.

Yours,Lenin

[1]MaximGorky.—Ed.